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Carla · 61-69, F
My mom used my dads dog whistle to call for us( i now have that same whistle on my key chain) If it was near dark, we'd best be in hearing distance. She knew it was useless to blow it during the day as we could be miles away on our trusty steeds. We had personal freedom then that children now just do not have. Mom and dad were good about letting us live in that way. Most of the kids i knew had those same freedoms.
As for food, mom was pretty good at not making us eat what we didn't like. My sister would eat only pbj for much of her youth. My tastes were varied, so i would try most everything. But a forced trial with beets, which i promptly threw up, was the last of forced tastings.(i told her the smell was all i needed). My father laughed so hard that night.
And yes, i know i am old...
As for food, mom was pretty good at not making us eat what we didn't like. My sister would eat only pbj for much of her youth. My tastes were varied, so i would try most everything. But a forced trial with beets, which i promptly threw up, was the last of forced tastings.(i told her the smell was all i needed). My father laughed so hard that night.
And yes, i know i am old...
@Carla I think it’s also a rural country thing. Most of the time I was with my parents way out in the country on their land and even today cell service out there sucks. I can get one bar in the farmhouse but most of the 400 acres there’s no service at all. The swimming pond on our land doesn’t but if you hike it about a mile and a half to the low rise hill out there you can get about half a bar. Needless to say, most of my childhood out there was similar to yours.